MBA

PROFESSORS:  Drs. Yvonne McKenzie & Leroy Hurt

Students will assess their readiness and next steps to be transformational leaders in their organizations, city or internal/external cultures where they have influence. Students will work to express their calling based upon current opportunities as well as their life narrative. Students will assess natural giftedness as evidenced in their life stories; spiritual gifts as evidenced in their ministries; as well as issues in their life that will limit their relational and missional abilities. This course includes a special emphasis on spiritual formation practices and principles connected to God’s wiring in their life and context. This course provides the personal focus and framework for the student to design the rest of the MAGUL degree to develop specific steps for mentoring, skill development, and research to build upon their strengths and opportunities and shore up weaknesses.

PROFESSORS:  Drs. Yvonne McKenzie & Claire Henry

This course focuses on the person of the leader and explores the paradoxical concept of servant leadership, modeled by Jesus, within the broader context of the abundance of leadership theories, in order to gain a clearer understanding of one’s true vocation, how one best leads, and the ability to lead oneself in an increasingly multi-cultural and complex world.

PROFESSOR:  Dr. Brad Smith

This course is designed to help students infuse the perspective, values and prayerfulness of a transformational leader into every aspect of resourcing their ministries and businesses. The end goal is clarity of perspective, practical skills, and concrete steps toward their goals during the class. In this course you will learn a theology of fundraising; how to express the story of your vision and mission in a way that connects to people's minds and hearts; how to identify new sources of donation and fee income, and how to develop local sources of funding to decrease dependence upon cross-cultural sources. Practical outcomes will include a personal/ organizational blog with social media coaching; a case for support document and a draft fundraising/resourcing plan for your organization.

PROFESSOR:  Rev. Dr. Wayne Weathers

This course is a general introduction that investigates current thinking about globalization and the confluence of Christian families around the world. The course will engage the student in broad-based studies on culturally-diverse Christian family values, sexuality, economics, social policy and other influences in the context of globalization. The student will examine implications on the Christian church as families face the demands of modernity.

PROFESSOR:  Dr. Leroy Hurt

In vision/values organizations the tools of operational systems and project management become the way teams translate vision and values into reality. Starting with strategic planning as a tool for team alignment, vision expansion, and communication, this course demonstrates how strategic plans are translated into the two core implementation arenas of operations and project management. Operations topics include workflow management, capacity and location planning, and team leadership with an emphasis on a “lean management‟ to streamline all core operational processes and maximize effective decision-making by front-line workers. Students will learn the skills of navigating organizational influences on their project as they define the three “P’s” of project management (purpose, process, and people). Project management topics include: developing and defining the charter, scope, and activities essential to the success of the project; resource allocation (time, money, skill, people, and infrastructure) through Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Compatibility Maturity Models (CMM) to develop and monitor schedules, costs, and budgets; establish optimal communications technologies strategies and techniques to address accountability and problem-solving; and identifying, quantifying, and minimizing emerging business risk in local and international market environments. During the course, students will actively implement the skills in this course through a practical project within their current organization.

PROFESSOR:  Dr. Wayne Smith

Building upon MBA 503 and 505, this course moves to a more in-depth study of accounting topics including: interrelationships between various accounting reports; revenue recognition; accounts receivables write off methods; accounting for inventory and fixed assets, liabilities and leases; short and long-term investments; consolidation and foreign currency transactions. Finance topics include ratio analysis; leveraging through debt or equity; cost frameworks, risk management; valuing financial assets; portfolio statistics; financial modeling and sustainability analysis. The course will give students basic skills in reading, understanding, constructing, and using an array of corporate financial statements. Most importantly, students will learn how to utilize these financial statements to evaluate business strategies and outcomes; account for and manage costs; and raise investment, equity and donation resources. Interwoven with these topics will be risk-management principles and techniques, including the use of bankruptcy, insurance, and the exercise of creditor’s rights on local and international contexts as financial tools in the marketplace. Overarching this course is the biblical topic of stewardship measurement, the direct correlation between decentralized decision-making and effective financial reporting, and the human dignity that comes from authority and responsibility that is properly aligned with metrics and accountability.